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Wino Wednesday: Saint Vitus 35th Anniversary Tour, Live in Portland, OR

The Saint Vitus 35th anniversary tour began May 8 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and will wrap up this coming weekend in Texas. The legendary doom four-piece have been playing their landmark 1986 album, Born too Late — the first to have found Scott “Wino” Weinrich, then recently out of The Obsessed, fronting the band — in its entirety, and while most of that record gets aired at Vitus shows anyway with songs like “Clear Windowpane,” “Dying Inside,” and “The War Starter” as set regulars along with standard finale “Born too Late,” it’s still something special and only underscores the band’s long-standing relevance in their genre and the figurehead position they’ve moved into since coming back in 2009.

Portland, Oregon, was the ninth of the total 15 shows on this West Coast run. The gig took place at Branx on May 17, with Sons of Huns and Washington heavy rockers Mos Generator — don’t forget, MosTony Reed recorded Vitus‘ 2012 album, Lillie: F-65 — and was captured on video by the native Portland outlet Doomed and Stoned. Aside from making me wonder how many “EC f’n W” t-shirts guitarist Dave Chandler has, it looks to have been a killer time as Vitus made their way through the songs from Born too Late and added choice cuts from the rest of their hugely influential catalog. Nine shows into the tour, they’re deadly tight throughout the set, with Wino, Chandler, drummer Henry Vasquez and bassist Mark Adams — who doesn’t show up much in the clip, but has a Grumpy Cat shirt on when he does, while we’re on the subject of wardrobe — on fire as the gig plays out. All the better as they get ready to take this show to Europe this fall.

Whether you watch the whole thing or skip around — the Born too Late stuff isn’t in order, but it’s all there — it’s worth checking out. Hope you enjoy and have a great Wino Wednesday:

Saint Vitus, Live in Portland, OR, May 17, 2014

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